"This volume provides the most comprehensive estimates of worldwide energy subsidies currently available, drawing on … "how to do" energy subsidy reform, drawing on insights from 22 country case studies and analyses carried out by other …

Energy subsidies have wide-ranging economic consequences. While aimed at protecting consumers, subsidies aggravate … fiscal imbalances, crowd-out priority public spending, and depress private investment, including in the energy sector …. Subsidies also distort resource allocation by encouraging excessive energy consumption, artificially promoting capital …

This supplement presents country case studies reviewing energy subsidy reform experiences, which are the basis for the … in Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS. The case studies are organized by energy product, with 14 studies of the … description of the reforms; discussion of the impact of the reform on energy prices or subsidies and its success or failure …

This paper on Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) on Kenya explains macroeconomic, structural, and social …

Kenya’s macroeconomic performance continued to improve until violence erupted in the aftermath of the general elections …

Like most Sub-Saharan African countries, Kenya’s economic growth appears to have been primarily driven by factor … accumulation. The Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix for Kenya examines economic developments and policies. During the … last two decades, Kenya has been plagued by pervasive problems of internal conflicts, constitutional crises, and corruption …

In Kenya, the general government is not defined consistently with government finance statistics (GFS) principles … with overall fiscal management. External scrutiny of macroeconomic assumptions is encouraged. Kenya meets some of the …

This book, written by the staff of the IMF Institute, offers a series of workshops on Kenya that are used as a case …

This paper describes Kenya’s third review under the three-year arrangement under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) and … request for modification of performance criteria. The Executive Board approved a three-year ECF arrangement for Kenya on …

This paper discusses key findings of the Second Review for Kenya under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF). Program …